- a variation of aureole.
aureola
Example Sentences
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
The arch encloses a medallion bust, the head of which is defaced, but which represented the Saviour, as is proved by the indication of a cross on the aureola.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
In the soffit of the arch, the head of Christ in a medallion, with rays issuing from behind the aureola.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
By the way, did you pack my aureola?
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
It is, therefore, perfectly right for the Church to surround Christ and Christianity with this divine aureola of reverence and wonder, not exaggerating it, but neither understating it.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
